He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
J. R. R. TOLKIENA hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
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